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Old 25th August 2008, 04:54 PM   #10 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by StreamOfTheSky View Post
I really hope I don't need to wipe my whole hard drive, like a rep from said cable company told me on the phone. it really sucks -- my computer's 5 years old, I had been starting to look into getting a new one, and now this happens. I'd really like to not lose 5 years of stuff.
Backup the files!

If your computer doesn't really let you, find/build a bootable CD/DVD solution (i.e. Knoppix) and boot your computer with that one, then access and backup the files via the file system.

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